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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:46:39 +0200 (CEST)
To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>
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Subject: Re: removing files
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Roman Katsnelson writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Let's say I have a directory with la.txt and foo.sh and 6 million other
 > files.

Let's say that directory is named "/tmp"

 > 
 > Can I issue a command that says: delete everything BUT la.txt and
 > foo.sh

yes.

 > 
 > 
 > According to man rm there's no way to do it with that one. Is there an
 > alternative?

Yes. "man grep" is your friend.

Try (in [ba]sh-world) :
  rm -f `/bin/ls /tmp/. | grep -v -e la.txt | grep -v -e foo.sh`

The tickmarks are back-ticks !

Malte.

 > 
 > Thanks,
 > 
 > Roman
 > -- 
 > Roman Katsnelson                
 > UNIX Network Engineer 
 > Graphnet, Inc.
 > 
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